An LENR like technique that achieves active cooling would be an interesting discovery. It is normal for a black body radiator to loose energy and cool down by radiation and maybe a method exists to convert some of the thermal energy into another form such as neutrinos that can escape any system effortlessly. The natural world may have a lot of fancy 'tricks' that we have not yet uncovered.
In normal stellar evolution I understand that iron is the last element synthesized within the core. Additional fusion is actually endothermic and would effectively be similar to what is suggested as a sink of energy that allows cooling. Perhaps this discovery is a low temperature variation of this effect. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Sun, Jun 17, 2012 2:51 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Missing Neutrons (hydrinos) On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:59 AM, David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> wrote: Thanks for the update Jones. If the cooling effect is valid then it should be pursued. Any time an anomalous occurrence is registered an opportunity to discover a new relationship exists which may allow us to fit additional parts of the puzzle into place. Agreed. The cooling effect is very interesting. It brings the question of conservation of energy to the fore. If normal LENR is like a box with a button on it, which once pressed causes heat to spill out, can you have another box with a button that, when pressed, causes cooling to occur? At face value, it sounds like some basic principle is being violated. The secret here might be in the materials, where nickel is used for heating and titanium is used for cooling. In the process peaks in the energy potential of the environment are gradually smoothed out and move towards some kind of baseline. If you had large LENR power stations operating over decades and centuries, pumping heat into the environment, would this just result in a change in the equilibrium of the environment such that more incoming solar energy would then be reflected into space, or would there be a need for active cooling of some kind? Eric
